A VESSEL supplying one of the country’s leading supermarkets with much of its stock is to be exposed by a trade union for paying crew members as little as $1.31 (€1.01) per hour.

THE beautician who sparked a labour row when it emerged she was being paid just over €1 an hour to work aboard an Irish Ferries vessel has reached a settlement with the company.

The Filipino woman who won a €25,000 cash settlement from Irish Ferries is to set up her own beauty salon, it emerged tonight.